The first day of our tour began with us checking out of the not-quite-the-real-Shangri-la hotel, jumping into two minivans, and taking the 2 hour drive up to Mount Kinabalu. The mountain is the highest in all of south-east Asia, peaking just shy of 4100 metres.
As this was the ‘family’ tour and not the ‘adventure’ tour, we didn’t climb to the top (that’s a 2 day exercise). We drove to the Mount Kinabalu Botanic Gardens which are located at roughly the 1500 metre mark. We did a quick 15 minute walk through the Botanic gardens, then went for a half hour or so hike around the lower level walking tracks of the mountain.
Then, after lunch at the Borneo equivalent of a roadside dinner, we headed off to the Sabah Tea Gardens, a commercial venture consisting of a tea plantation and accommodation. Here, we got our first real taste of Borneo culture with our sleeping quarters for the next two nights being in a “long house”. The long house is a bamboo construction of 10 or 11 sleeping rooms side by side, with a common verandah running the full length of one side of the building.
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Quaint, rustic, natural, cultural….but if anyone got up to go to the loo in the middle of the night, everyone knew about it, as the floor boards all flexed when you walked on them! Thankfully, all the beds had mosquito nets over them, which was comforting. As beautiful and primitive as this country is, part of that primitive nature means that malaria is still a very real concern.
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